Comments on: Three new papers find sugars, “gum,” and lots of stardust in the samples brought back from the asteroid Bennu https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/three-new-papers-find-sugars-gum-and-lots-of-stardust-in-the-samples-brought-back-from-the-asteroid-bennu/ Wed, 03 Dec 2025 15:52:26 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: M Puckett https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/three-new-papers-find-sugars-gum-and-lots-of-stardust-in-the-samples-brought-back-from-the-asteroid-bennu/#comment-1625829 Wed, 03 Dec 2025 15:52:26 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=119523#comment-1625829 So, an actual Milky Way bar….hmmm…

]]> By: Dick Eagleson https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/three-new-papers-find-sugars-gum-and-lots-of-stardust-in-the-samples-brought-back-from-the-asteroid-bennu/#comment-1625822 Wed, 03 Dec 2025 15:29:14 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=119523#comment-1625822 So we can get sugars and a gum-like substance from asteroids? Someone needs to tell Beemans. Future generations of hero astronauts can get their IRSU-chew of local manufacture.

]]> By: Ronaldus Magnus https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/three-new-papers-find-sugars-gum-and-lots-of-stardust-in-the-samples-brought-back-from-the-asteroid-bennu/#comment-1625799 Tue, 02 Dec 2025 23:00:36 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=119523#comment-1625799 John Batchelor just had a 4 part podcast with the OSIRIS-REX mission leader Dante Lauretta.

HIGHLY recommend you listen.

The book by Dante Lauretta is:

The Asteroid Hunter: A Scientist’s Journey to the Dawn of our Solar System.

Cannot wait to read it.

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